http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/give/ en-us Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:21:16 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1867001/posts TIKRIT, Iraq, July 16, 2007 — The first thing Command Sgt. Maj. Guy Boschee does when he wakes up every morning in his hooch in Iraq is give thanks. The first thing his daughter, Spc. Hope Boschee, does every morning when she wakes up in her tent in Afghanistan is give thanks. “I think about all the good memories I hold dear to my heart, and thank the Lord for giving me a great family, and another beautiful day on Earth,” Guy said. Hope is thankful for her family and her father. “Without them, I wouldn’t be who I am... Defense News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1867001/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:21:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1820171/posts Hi all, just a reader here, but if we all give $10 TODAY, we could be done with the fundraising. Do. It. Now. I gave already, but I'm willing to give a little more. We still have $13,000 to go (1300 people giving ten bucks each). I'm sick of seeing this thing; aren't you? Let's wrap it up! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1820171/posts#comment Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:23:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1799151/posts VAIL, Colo., March 11, 2007 – Vail firefighters opened their house here yesterday evening for the fourth year in a row to thank the 25 participants of the Vail Veterans Program for their service to the nation. The firefighters treated the veterans and their guests to a homemade lasagna dinner. Vail firefighters and other volunteers serve a homemade lasagna dinner to Army Maj. David Rozelle, administrator for Walter Reed’s Amputee Care Center, and other wounded veterans in Vail, Colo., on March 10. This is the fourth dinner held for the injured veterans participating in the Vail Veterans Program’s winter... America Supports You http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1799151/posts#comment Sun, 11 Mar 2007 20:16:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1737769/posts Global War On Terror: If the Democrats are not going to cut and run from Iraq, why are they seeking advice and counsel from the man who helped them cut South Vietnam off at the knees? The Democrats seem to have a fondness for party leaders and presidents whose policies and positions, when followed, result in the expansion of tyranny, the subjugation and even death of millions, and added threats to U.S. safety and security.... Jimmy Carter’s liberal naivete helped oust a staunch ally, the Shah of Iran... Carter was Bill Clinton’s legman in repeated attempts to bribe North Korea....which... Investor's business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1737769/posts#comment Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:35:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1710962/posts Saturday, Sept. 30, 2006 China quick to give Abe & Co. warning over Taiwan BEIJING (Kyodo) China has warned Japan's new government over its Taiwan policy, reiterating its opposition to including the island in the scope of the Japan-U.S. security alliance and urging Tokyo to act with caution over Taipei's invitation for former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to pay a visit. If the Japan-U.S. security alliance "exceeds the bilateral scope, it will trigger neighboring countries' worries and become a factor for instability and complexity in the regional security situation," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said Thursday at a news... Japan Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1710962/posts#comment Sat, 30 Sep 2006 01:00:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687686/posts The economy's growth has never before been so driven by real estate. Now that engine is sputtering. Jiany Massad isn't quite ready to throw in the towel on his fledgling career as a Miami real-estate tycoon. But if the local housing market continues to head south, the 30-year-old real-estate broker is already making alternate plans. "I might restart my old business," he says of a home decorating company that specialized in high-end window treatments. "At least it's real-estate-related." With home sales down by nearly a third in Florida last quarter, thousands of those who hoped to cash in on the... US News.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687686/posts#comment Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:40:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1687111/posts When Jesus was living, he did not align himself with the Jewish religious parties, then called Saducees and Pharisees, nor the secular authorities: King Herod and Rome. He obeyed the Mosaic law and even paid tribute. He told Nicodemus, an old man that he had to be born again to be saved. Jesus meant born spiritually. Jesus preached that this spiritual new baby would be then, dead to the world, living in the world but not of it. He pointed out that worrying about the future was not what a Christian would be doing because tomorrow has enough worries to... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1687111/posts#comment Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:32:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1686998/posts Let me go on record as saying I like Hyundai. For the record, I personally own a Sonata, and it's a great car. That said, will someone from Hyundai's advertising department kindly explain what you were thinking when you authorized the latest commercial for the 2006 Sonata? "Rethink Everything" involves the concept of the Hyundai Sonata turning the world upside down. You can access the commercial online with this URL: http://www.studiodaily.com/filmandvideo/projects/f/commercials/6702.html The spot starts out innocuously enough: a rather cliche scene of a Sonata cruising along a city street. Quickly the spot kicks into high gear: An office located in... Hyundai Sonata TV Commercial http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1686998/posts#comment Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:04:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1687017/posts I think the latest commercial for the Huyndai Sonata speaks for itself, and you can access it online using the URL: http://www.studiodaily.com/filmandvideo/projects/f/commercials/6702.html . So the quuestion is, "Why is Hyundai using imagery remisiscent of 911 to help sell cars"? Hyundai TV Commercial http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1687017/posts#comment Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:50:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687007/posts WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 2006 – Over the past two and a half years, about 500 severely wounded servicemembers and their families have enjoyed 5,000 free dinners out on the town thanks to Hal Koster and Marty O’Brien. “Some of them have come to multiple dinners because some of them are here for years,” Koster said Aug. 18, as he looked over the 60 or so guests dining on the rooftop of The Exchange restaurant here. About 20 servicemembers, many in wheelchairs and prosthetics, family members and other guests dined overlooking a panoramic view of the U.S. Capitol, and the Washington... America Supports You http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687007/posts#comment Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:31:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1686746/posts This is different. This post isn't about what I have gleemed from some 'news-source' today. This post is about HOW do you convince your friends, your family .. your loved ones that "There Is A Crisis" in America and that this crisis continues to grow, each and every day..regardless of whether they believe it or not! The only thing that any of them believe in is: Our Government. I would like to give you the whole story, how I have tried and finally given up, given up in trying to convince my family, my loved ones that we are at... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1686746/posts#comment Sun, 20 Aug 2006 05:51:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642069/posts Warrant will give EU judges power over British police By David Rennie in Brussels (Filed: 02/06/2006) The Government signed up to a European Evidence Warrant yesterday that gives foreign judges the power to send British police into a British home and seize evidence in connection with suspected crimes committed in other European Union nations. The new warrant is founded on the principle of "mutual recognition", meaning that British authorities have only the most slender, technical of reasons to object to a warrant, and in most cases must execute them automatically, as if they were issued by a British court. The... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642069/posts#comment Fri, 2 Jun 2006 01:17:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1626979/posts POMPANO BEACH, Fla., May 4, 2006 – Nearly 60 sailors worked to help take future homeowners' dreams one step closer to reality here yesterday. Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class John Mcinnis, a damage controlman aboard the USCG Cutter Elm, works with servicemembers from his ship and others to roof a house for Habitat for Humanity of Broward County, Fla. Servicemembers began working with Habitat May 1, and were to complete their participation May 4. Photo by Samantha L. Quigley  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The sailors are assigned to various U.S. and Canadian military ships temporarily ported... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1626979/posts#comment Thu, 4 May 2006 23:50:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1605801/posts Bird flu vaccine trial gives disappointing results 23:00 29 March 2006 NewScientist.com news service Debora MacKenzie Yet another trial of an H5N1 bird flu vaccine in humans has ended in disappointment, with only high doses giving a good immune response. John Treanor, at the University of Rochester, New York, US, and colleagues tested a vaccine made by the French-owned firm Sanofi-Pasteur. It contained the vaccine “seed strain” of H5N1 created in 2004, grown in eggs, killed and split, the way standard flu vaccines are made. But like earlier trials with a similar preparation, the vaccine elicited a significant immune response... New Scientist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1605801/posts#comment Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:04:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1589746/posts Iran refuses to give ground over nuclear 'research' By David Rennie in Brussels (Filed: 04/03/2006) European Union negotiators yesterday walked away empty handed from talks with Iran two days before its nuclear programme is due to be discussed by the United Nations nuclear watchdog. The eleventh hour meeting was attended by a senior Foreign Office official, the French and German foreign ministers and the EU foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, at Iran's request. Iran's Ali Larijani listens to EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana The Iranians reiterated their demand to be allowed to continue "laboratory research" into uranium enrichment, a... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1589746/posts#comment Sat, 4 Mar 2006 02:49:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1585033/posts TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Some Florida cities would like to throw a dog a bone _ or maybe a burger and some fries. Dogs would be able to sit with humans at outdoor restaurant tables in some communities under a measure advancing in the Florida Legislature. The bill, approved by a House committee Wednesday, would create a three-year test program to allow cities to grant restaurants that want to host dogs special permission to do so under certain conditions. Rep. Sheri McInvale, an Orlando Republican, filed the bill after some restaurant owners complained because they were threatened with fines for allowing... http://www.comcast.net/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1585033/posts#comment Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:12:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1577826/posts WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 2006 – Two organizations have teamed up to send valentines to troops in Baghdad in a union made possible by "America Supports You." From left, Shauna Fleming, Peter Angel, and Paul Holton stand in front of a FedEx truck, loaded with 200,000 valentines, Feb. 7 in California. Fleming, the 16-year-old founder of "A Million Thanks" has partnered on this project with Holton, founder of "Operation Give," to send the shipment to troops in Baghdad just in time for Valentine's Day. Courtesy photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Since November 2004, the Defense Department program to... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1577826/posts#comment Mon, 13 Feb 2006 23:35:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563539/posts BARWANAH, Iraq (Jan. 23, 2006) -- The Marines of Team 6, Detachment 3, 6th Civil Affairs Group, take a page out of their own nation’s history books by working to give the power back to the people here. In America’s early years, the idea of a free country was based on giving people the power to make their own community’s decisions. It is no different here, where the civil affairs Marines work each day to put the city’s future in the hands of community leaders. “We are in the process of turning over all the reconstruction projects the city needs... Marine Corps News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563539/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:19:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559284/posts Let's give Iran some of its own medicine By Mark Steyn (Filed: 17/01/2006) So let me see. On the one hand, we have a regime that is pressing full steam ahead with its nuclear programme and whose president has threatened to wipe another sovereign state off the map. And, on the other side of the negotiations, we have Her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. Jack Straw has been at pains to emphasise that no military action against Iran is being contemplated by him or anybody else, but in a sign that he's losing patience... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559284/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:58:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1557831/posts AMRAN, Yemen, Jan. 13, 2006 – More than 780 animals received free medical care recently during a veterinary civil action plan event here. Local veterinarians teamed up with civil affairs team members from Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa to treat herds in the villages of Bani Mamoon, Thula and Hababa. Animals were given vitamins and anti-parasitic medication and were checked for any other problems. While the number of animals treated was lower than in past VetCAPs held by the task force, team members said they felt the mission to assist local villagers was a definite success. "The neat... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1557831/posts#comment Sat, 14 Jan 2006 01:42:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1556388/posts 1/11/2006 - ALI BASE, Iraq (AFPN) -- Reality is often at odds with expectations when Airmen deploy. This difference can be extreme when the mission is to provide military training to a recent enemy. But several Airmen near the end of six-month deployments as advisory support team instructors say they would rather stay here than go home after their experiences. During their deployment they have had a chance to directly shape the future of the world, learn about and gain respect for a different culture, meet men they now call brothers and solidify their instinctive belief that the U.S. Air... Air Force Links http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1556388/posts#comment Thu, 12 Jan 2006 02:03:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1548922/posts CAMP BONDSTEEL, KOSOVO (Army News Service, Dec. 28, 2005) – Soldiers from KFOR 6B convoyed to a hilltop church overlooking the small town of Letnice/Letnica, Kosovo, Dec. 25 to deliver hand-made fleece blankets to residents there. “It’s important for me to celebrate Christmas here,” said 1st Lt. Melanie Meyer, liaison officer, Task Force Falcon. “This is my first Christmas away from my family in the states. I wanted to come out here today so I can still feel the same joy of giving during Christmas. Watching the faces of the kids getting really excited is great.” Several children dressed in... ARNEWS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1548922/posts#comment Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:16:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1547018/posts Germans give chimney sweeps the brush-off By Kate Connolly in Berlin (Filed: 26/12/2005) In his top hat, white tie and brass-buttoned uniform, and dangling a brush on a chain over his shoulder, Erhard Feller might have walked off the set of a film about Victorian England. But the 51-year-old chimney sweep is a vibrant part of working life in modern Berlin and the uniform is standard for him and his 8,000 colleagues across Germany. Even though most German chimneys are too thin for Santa Claus to squeeze into, Christmas is still the busiest time of year for Mr Feller, who... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1547018/posts#comment Mon, 26 Dec 2005 03:36:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1536023/posts Doctors Give Iraqi Baby New Lease on Life Doctors at the Abu Ghraib hospital, and a very long-distance phone call, helped diagnose and treat a very sick four-month-old baby. By U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Carolanne DiggsMultinational Force-Iraq ABU GHRAIB, Iraq, Dec. 7, 2005 — Four-month-old Tabark Abdul Rahman, known as Tabitha to the Abu Ghraib medical staff, was given a grim prognosis on life. When she arrived at the Abu Ghraib hospital she was malnourished, dehydrated, in renal (kidney) distress, was suffering from diarrhea and had a bad cough. X-rays showed she had pneumonia. After two months in... Defend America News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1536023/posts#comment Thu, 8 Dec 2005 00:19:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1522043/posts An Iraqi police officer directs a woman to a truck where she was given a blanket by coalition forces in Tall Afar, Iraq, Nov. 13, 2005. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. James Wilt  More Photos Troops Give Blankets to Tall Afar Residents Temperatures in the region are beginning to drop as winter approaches, bringing a need for blankets. By U.S. Army Pfc. James Wilt 82nd Airborne Division TALL AFAR, Iraq, Nov. 14, 2005 — Coalition forces, with the aid of the Iraqi workers, distributed several truckloads of blankets to the local residents here, Nov. 13. With Iraqi soldiers and... Defend America News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1522043/posts#comment Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:54:45 GMT